Performing Arts Make a Cautious Return in New York
More than a year after the pandemic abruptly shuttered theaters and concert halls across the city, limited audiences were welcomed back inside.
Ashwin Rathie taking a selfie before entering the first live show inside the Comedy Cellar in over a year. Credit.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
April 4, 2021, 2:05 p.m. ET
The days are getting longer. The sun is out. The number of vaccinated New Yorkers continues to grow every day.
And now, more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic suddenly brought down the curtain at theaters and concert halls across the city, darkening Broadway and comedy clubs alike, the performing arts are beginning to bounce back.
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Theater Is Closed, But That Hasn’t Stopped the Woosters Vulture.com 3/3/2021 Helen Shaw © Dina Litovsky for New York Magazine Clockwise from top left, director Elizabeth LeCompte, Erin Mullin, Gareth Hobbs, assistant director Michaela Murphy, Ari Fliakos, and Kate Valk. Dina Litovsky for New York Magazine
The members of the 46-year-old Wooster Group are the monks of New York theater. They’re our holy fools, who even when no one is watching keep the art’s sacred fires burning. Rehearsal isn’t so much a preparation-to-show as it is a kind of religious practice as endless, deliberative, and open to inspiration as a Shaker meeting.